On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Gleki Arxokuna <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:2014-09-23 16:58 GMT+04:00 'John E Clifford' via lojban <lojban@googlegroups.com>:Losing the thread here. ButEnglish is a tonal language?yes, say aloud this last phrase and hear the tone."Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning – that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.[1] All verbal languages use pitch to express emotional and other paralinguistic information and to convey emphasis, contrast, and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously to consonants and vowels. Languages that do have this feature are called tonal languages;" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_(linguistics)mu'o mi'e xorxes--
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